People saying “with AI you take 3 min to generate code and 2 hours to debug it” or things along those lines are just bad software engineers.

You still have to read and understand the code the AI wrote, why are you at the debugging stage just after the code was generated? Quality of the code is still YOUR responsibility. If it systematically takes you 2 hours to debug, it’s just because YOU write shitty code, with the help of AI but that doesn’t matter.

You could almost not review the AI code if you had good tests but the problem is you still need to be a good SE to write good tests.

If you don’t know how to use those tools, don’t use them, but don’t say they are inherently bad, rather learn how to use them.